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2017 Program Simone de Beauvoir Summer Institute

Sunday, May 14, 2017 Session 1 2pm-3pm

MB 1.210 MANDATORY ORIENTATION SESSION FOR STUDENTS REGISTERED IN WSDB 398 GA (FOR CREDIT)

3pm-5pm REGISTRATION OF CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS

Session 2 3:30pm-4:30pm

MB 1.210 OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE SUMMER INSTITUTE (ALL STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPANTS) Chair: Finn Purcell (Simone de Beauvoir Summer Institute Research Coordinator) Panelists: “The feminist university” Kimberley Manning (Simone de Beauvoir Institute; Department of Political Science, Concordia University) “A nomadic feminist voyage for collective mobilizing” Geneviève Rail (Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University)

4:30pm-5:30pm

MEET AND GREET

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Monday, May 15, 2017 Session 3 9am-10am

MB 1.210 OPENING SESSION ON MOBILIZING IN/VISIBLE BODIES: FOCUS ON ANTI-OPPRESSION Chair: Geneviève Rail (Simone de Beauvoir Institute) “Top 10s are bullshit but will do one anyway: Tips to an anti-oppression journey” Gabrielle Bouchard (Trans Advocate and Public Educator, Centre for Gender Advocacy, Concordia University)

10am-10:30am

HEALTH BREAK

Session 4

10:30am-12pm

MB 1.210 IN/VISIBLE INDIGENOUS BODIES AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Chair: Alexander Antonopoulos (Simone de Beauvoir Institute and Department of Political Science, Concordia University) “Protecting and asserting rights and justice through an Arsi Oromo women’s dispute resolution process in Ethiopia” Leila Qashu (Banting Posdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University) “Girth” Tara McGowan-Ross (Urban Aboriginal Multidisciplinary Artist)

12pm-1pm FREE TIME

Session 5 1pm-3pm

SIMULTANEOUS WORKSHOPS (PARTICIPANTS CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING) A) Room MB 7.255 (Dance room) “Mobilizing bodies: Self consciousness and somatic education” Workshop Leader: Sylvie Fortin (Département de danse, Université du

Québec à Montréal) B) Room MB 2.265 “Interactive storytelling as resistance: Hypertextual fiction and twine” Workshop Leader: Eileen Holowka (English Literature and Creative

Writing Department, Concordia University) C) Room MB 2.285 “Becoming a chemical detective: Giving voice to invisibilized women

around an invisible problem” Workshop Leader: Nancy Guberman (President, Breast Cancer Action

Quebec)

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Monday, May 15, 2017 3pm-3:30pm

HEALTH BREAK

Session 6 3:30pm-5pm

MB 1.210 INTEGRATION AND DISCUSSION Geneviève Rail (Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University)

Tuesday, May 16, 2017 Session 7 9am-10:30am

MB 1.210 MUSLIM WOMEN, IN/VISIBILITY AND FEMINISM Chair: Shaheen Munir (Vice-President, International Society of Bangladesh; Research Associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute) Panelists: “Babies and bath water: Re-thinking ‘rights’ in the world we inhabit today” Dolores Chew (Marianopolis College; Research Associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute) “Palestinian women and the many facets of their struggle: The articulation of international solidarity” Zahia El-Masri (Human Rights Activist) “Feminism as crime: My time in prison” Homa Hoodfar (Emerita Professor of Anthopology, Concordia University)

10:30am-11am

HEALTH BREAK

Session 8

11am-12pm

MB 1.210 PLENARY DISCUSSION Chair: Shaheen Munir (Vice-President, International Society of Bangladesh; Research Associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute)

12pm-1pm FREE TIME

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Tuesday, May 16, 2017 Session 9 1pm-3pm

SIMULTANEOUS WORKSHOPS (PARTICIPANTS CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING) A) Room EV 11.705 (Milieux Institute Resource Centre) “Making invisible bodies literally visible” Workshop Leader: Maya Hey (Researcher at Speculative Life Laboratory,

Milieux Institute) B) Room MB 2.285 “Audible bodies” Workshop Leader: Caroline Künzle (Independent Artist and Researcher,

Co-Producer of Easy Sonic Living on CKUT Radio)

3pm-3:30pm HEALTH BREAK



Wednesday, May 17, 2017 Session 11 9am-10:30am

MB 1.210 IN/VISIBILITY, EMBODIMENT AND PUBLIC LIFE Chair: Momoko Allard (Manager of Concordia University’s Feminist Media Studio) Panelists: “When you're hyper-visible and invisible at once: The Qouleur experience” Karine-Myrgianie Jean-François (Community Organizer and Worker) “Rethinking trans embodiments through a socio-subjective model of disability” Alexandre Baril (Izaak Walton Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, Dalhousie University) “Ageing, relationality, intersectionality” Kim Sawchuk (Communication Studies, Concordia University)

10:30am-11am

HEALTH BREAK

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Wednesday, May 17, 2017 Session 12

11am-12pm

MB 1.210 PLENARY DISCUSSION Chair: Momoko Allard (Manager of Concordia University’s Feminist Media Studio)

12pm-1pm FREE TIME

Session 13 1pm-3pm

SIMULTANEOUS WORKSHOPS (PARTICIPANTS CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING) A) Room MB 2.255 “Online Self-Defense 101” Workshop Leader: Liane Décary-Chen (Multimedia Artist and Activist,

TAG Lab, Concordia University) B) Room MB 2.265 “Confronting oppression with words inspired by colour” Workshop Leader: Jess Goldson (Word and Colour) C) Room MB 2.285 “Trans trenderz: Redefining visibility” Workshop Leader: Lucas Charlie Rose




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Thursday, May 18, 2017 Session 15 9am-10:30am

MB 1.210 ILLNESS, ABILITY, BODY ART: REVISIONING AND MOBILIZING Chair: Abby Lippman (McGill University Emerita Professor; Simone de Beauvoir Institute Research Associate) Panelists: “Invisible illness and community care” Zuzanna Smetana (Master’s in Theological Studies, Concordia University) “Underlining for emphasis” Michelle Lacombe (Independent Artist, Director of the International Biennial VIVA! Art Action) “Ableism is a feminist issue” Laurence Parent (Ph.D. Student in Humanities, Concordia University)

10:30am-11am

HEALTH BREAK

Session 16

11am-12pm

MB 1.210 PLENARY DISCUSSION Chair: Abby Lippman (McGill University Emerita Professor; Simone de Beauvoir Institute Research Associate)

12pm-1pm FREE TIME

Session 17 1pm-3pm

SIMULTANEOUS WORKSHOPS (PARTICIPANTS CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING) A) Room MB 2.255 “Field recording: Tools, ethics, and political dimensions” Workshop Leader: Helena Krobath (Media Studies, Concordia University) B) Room MB 2.265 “A joyous self” Workshop Leader: Devora Neumark (MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts,

Goddard College, Vermont and Washington) C) Room MB 2.285 “Theatre of the oppressed/Image theatre workshop on in/visibility” Workshop Leader: Kate Stockburger (Theatre Artist, Concordia

University Student in Theatre and Development)


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Thursday, May 18, 2017 Session 18 3:30pm-5pm


Thursday, May 18, 2017 FREE SESSION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Session 19 7pm-9pm

MB 1.210 PUBLIC LECTURE Chair: Gada Mahrouse (Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University) “The (in)visibility and hyper-Visibility of Muslim women: The experience of niqab-wearing women in Canada” Natasha Bakht (Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa)

Session 19 9pm-10pm

Hall next to MB 1.210 RECEPTION

Friday, May 19, 2017 Session 20 9am-10:30am

MB 1.210 BODIES IN LIMINAL SPACES Chair: Rachel Berger (Professor, Department of History; Fellow, Simone de Beauvoir Institute) Panelists: “Outside the box: On being a woman in the film industry” Gina Hara (Filmmaker and Creative Director, Technoculture, Art and Games Research Centre) “Shedding light on Indigenous bodies” Nahka Bertrand (Journalism Program Graduate, Concordia University; Executive Chef, Three Sisters Catering Collective) ““Too few to count” or liminal gendered bodies in prison” Sylvie Frigon (Department of Criminology and Faculty Research Chair “The prison in culture, the culture in prison,” University of Ottawa)

10:30am-11am

HEALTH BREAK

Session 21

11am-12pm

MB 1.210 PLENARY DISCUSSION Chair: Rachel Berger (Professor, Department of History; Fellow, Simone de Beauvoir Institute)

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Friday, May 19, 2017 12pm-1pm

FREE TIME

Session 22 1pm-3pm

MB 1.210 DISCUSSION, RESOLUTION AND CONCLUSION OF THE SUMMER INSTITUTE Chair: Geneviève Rail (Simone de Beauvoir Institute)


Session 23 3:30pm-4:30pm

MB 1.210 MANDATORY ORIENTATION SESSION FOR STUDENTS REGISTERED IN WSDB 398 GA (FOR CREDIT) Chair: Geneviève Rail (Simone de Beauvoir Institute)

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2017 Abstracts Simone de Beauvoir Summer Institute

BAKHT, Natasha (Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa) The (in)visibility and hyper-Visibility of Muslim women: The experience of niqab-wearing women in Canada In at least four episodes involving niqab-wearing women, Canada has expressed a growing agitation about Muslim women who cover their faces. The depth of discomfort evoked by these women and their outward markers of religiosity is extraordinary and results in a wide range of rationalizations as to why their choice of clothing must be banned. I offer a critical examination of these four prohibitions of the niqab, revealing incongruous messages about niqab-wearing women. By discussing their plight, my hope is that we might focus our gaze inward and begin to better understand ourselves. BARIL, Alexandre (Izaak Walton Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Political Science, Dalhousie University) Rethinking trans embodiments through a socio-subjective model of disability Social theorists have described two models of disability: medical and social. The medical perspective interprets disability as an individual problem to be cured, while the social perspective sees ableist society as the cause of disabled people’s suffering. In this talk, I argue that similar approaches are used to examine transgender realities, despite the demonstrated limits of each of these models in describing the complexity of disabled and trans people’s realities. This presentation discusses transness and gender identity through a socio-subjective model of disability that takes both social oppression and subjective experience into account. BERTRAND, Nahka (Journalism Program Graduate, Concordia University; Executive Chef, Three Sisters Catering Collective) Shedding light on Indigenous bodies This presentation centres on the issue of “problematizing” the invisible Indigenous body that wishes to remain invisible for reasons linked to systemic violence and racism. It also addresses the issue of invisible bodies and how they hold important space in Indigenous communities. The presentation sheds lights on such questions as well as on Indigenous notions of cultural safety and concerns for “problematizing” invisibility, as revealed in the media by the women of Val d’Or. BOUCHARD, Gabrielle (Trans Advocate and Public Educator, Centre for Gender Advocacy, Concordia University) Top 10s are bullshit but will do one anyway: Tips to an anti-oppression journey

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CHEW, Dolores (Professor of History and Humanities at Marianopolis College, Research Associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute) Babies and bath water: Re-thinking ‘rights’ in the world we inhabit today As the radical right takes to the streets of Montreal or further afield in India and other parts of the world, and nationalism takes hold, I find myself thinking that what I and many others in our assumptions, articulations and work had taken for granted and built upon – equality rights for all, which led us to push for moving from universals to specifics and intersections as it related to marginalized and racialized communities – is evaporating. We are fighting rear-guard actions. And I find the need to re-think and re-frame, not because I disagree with earlier pioneering work, but because I find an urgency to come up with tools to analyze, challenge and confront the new realities that are seeking to invisibilize us once again. By looking at Quebec and India, I will raise questions and suggest some ways forward. DÉCARY-CHEN, Liane (Multimedia Artist and Activist, TAG Lab, Concordia University) Online self-defense 101 The web offers a unique space for queers, femmes, and marginalized people to grow and create communities. However, as we have seen during events such as gamergate, those spaces are under attack. The purpose of this workshop is to help members of marginalized communities, particularly artists and activists, to develop online self-defense tools to improve their own safety and privacy on the web. Through this, we are attempting to reclaim agency over our spaces, lives, and communities, both online and offline. We will cover basic “low-tech” security techniques related to one’s online presence, as well as techniques to counteract cyber harassment and online attacks (legal recourse, damage-control, self-care). This introductory workshop will not cover deeper cybersecurity concerns such as government surveillance and the gathering of information by corporate entities. This workshop is based on Liane’s zine Encrypt Your Nudes!, which can be downloaded for free at bit.ly/EYNzine. EL-MASRI, Zahia (Human Rights Activist) Palestinian women and the many facets of their struggle: The articulation of international solidarity Palestinians have been on the front line in the fight for justice and liberation. With the upcoming commemoration of the Nakba, the Balfour declaration and the ongoing prisoner’s hunger strike, more than ever Palestinian civil society is raising its voice and reaching out to the international community. Solidarity can play an effective role. How? It is important to have a collective narrative and to re-frame the Palestinian quest for justice through the lens of recognition. Recognition of the injustices committed, recognition of the unheard and untold stories and events that shaped our history. Looking at the daily struggle for freedom through the eyes of Palestinian women gives us a more in-depth look at the effects of the occupation on the fabric on Palestinian society. FORTIN, Sylvie (Département de danse, Université du Québec à Montréal) Mobilizing bodies: Self consciousness and somatic education When facing a delicate situation in scuba diving, the instruction is: “stop, breathe, and act.” In this workshop, we’ll stop superfluous gesturing to feel the micro movements of our breathing and explore how inner bodily experiences can be a basis to act in the world with both a sense of strength and vulnerability. Then I’ll briefly share testimonies taken from different action research projects with women suffering from mental illness, substance abuse addiction, homelessness, fibromyalgia, and eating disorders. These allow to reflect on going from the consciousness of our moving body to the consciousness of our socio political actions. REQUIREMENT: dress with comfortable, loose-fitting clothing. FRIGON, Sylvie (Department of Criminology and Faculty Research Chair “The prison in culture, the culture in prison,” University of Ottawa) “Too few to count” or liminal gendered bodies in prison In this inaugural summer institute, I hope to explore the ways in which the body is pivotal to the politics of confinement. The power of the institutions directly or indirectly involves subjections associated with political techniques directed to the body, the body as territory as liminal space. Women/bodies intersecting with the carceral system of oppression are often rendered invisible. In fact, women in custody are often overlooked in sociological and criminological accounts, sometimes viewed as a ‘social inconvenience’ (Berzins and Carrière, 1979), at other times as ‘too few to count’ (Adelberg and Currie, 1987). More recently, despite more humanistic discourses, task forces, new rationalities, architectural designs, recent changes in detention practices and increased funding, it appears that the carceral institution still needs and produces docile bodies (See task force: Creating Choices, 1990). In this presentation, governing bodies will be analysed through the lens of liminality and liminal space. The thrust of the argument is constructed around the premise that criminology and law have probed, marked, measured, explained, and treated the deviant body, and this has taken many shapes and forms, in criminal justice throughout history. Moreover, the concern for the ‘deviant’ body rests on the assumption of a ‘normal’ one (Terry and Urla, 1995). Hence, I will examine more particularly how confinement marks the body, how penal laws are imprinted onto it, and how governance is achieved through it. In order to undertake this task, I will use the pivotal concept body as a parameter in exploring gendered practices of subjection through the presiding theoretical concept related to rites of passage, with the robust body of literature around liminality. It is through the notion of liminality that I explore the socially stigmatized gendered identities. Van Gennep’s (1909), Turner’s (1982), Braidotti’s (1994, 2006) work on liminality and

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Butler’s (1997) on performativity will be called upon to discuss and illuminate these complex debates and open new ways of understanding and resisting carceral regimes. Goldson, Jess (Word and Colour) Confronting oppression with words inspired by colour This writing workshop will examine the power of collaborations between artists to confront forms of oppression and give voice to marginalized/ignored lives and communities. We will specifically focus on the dialogue between poetry and visual art: writers will visit a gallery, write what the art inspires, and return to share whatever they feel comfortable sharing. Lead by Word and Colour.com’s Jess Goldson, the workshop will aim to underline the power of poetry as a community-building tool through a dialogue between writers in the workshop, whether about their personal approaches to collaborating with art or in sharing the pieces they produce while in the gallery. All writers are welcome, regardless of experience, as the goal of the workshop is to begin a dialogue about the creative practice and power of writing in collaboration with other forms of art. The gallery visited will be either on the ground floor of EV or the LB building, and we welcome suggestions for other accessible galleries in the downtown area. GUBERMAN, Nancy (President, Breast Cancer Action Quebec) Becoming a chemical detective: Giving voice to invisibilized women around an invisible problem “Becoming a Chemical Detective” is an interactive presentation that Breast Cancer Action Quebec developed and more recently adapted to reach out to marginalized women who are often excluded (invisible) from the women’s health and especially environmental movements. It aims to give them voice. The presentation itself explains about toxic chemicals in the environment, their impact on women’s bodies and link to breast cancer and other diseases, the lack of regulation and then takes participants through a typical house having them identify products containing harmful chemicals and making suggestions for alternatives to these products so as to reduce risk of exposure. Finally, the workshop has participants develop a collective action in reaction to what they have learned. HARA, Gina (Filmmaker and Creative Director, Technoculture, Art and Games Research Centre) Outside the box: On being a woman in the film industry HEY, Maya (Doctoral Student, Communications Studies, Concordia University) Making invisible bodies literally visible Everyday comestibles like yogurt and kombucha are alive in a way that mess with our ideas about eating other bodies, human control, and embodiment. These fermented foods are alive because of microbes that are invisible to the human eye. Come demystify the world of fermented foods with this hands-on workshop on bacteria and yeasts, where participants will learn basic lab techniques with petri dishes to make visible what we cannot see. A discussion on the intersection of fermentation and feminism will follow, including explanation of concepts such as Donna Haraway’s sympoeisis, Anna Tsing’s worlding, and Lisa Heldke’s mentally-manual activities. HOLOWKA, Eileen (English Literature and Creative Writing Department, Concordia University) Interactive storytelling as resistance: Hypertextual fiction and twine “Interactive Storytelling as Resistance” will teach participants how to create stories using the hypertextual narrative tool Twine, in order to make visible the kinds of stories that are most often erased. Twine games are often produced by people outside of video games' targeted demographic of cisgender, heterosexual men and therefore they provide stories that resist the heteronormative narratives we see most often in popular media. This workshop will not only teach the tools of Twine, but explore ways of telling different and erased stories, ones that explore trauma, illness, race, gender, sexuality, and visibility. Together, we will play-through and discuss Twine games such as the work of Porpentine which explore gender dysphoria, social stigmatisation and depression; Nina Freeman's Mangia, which looks at life with a chronic illness; Kaitlin Tremblay's digital narrative explorations of self harm and eating disorders; as well as my own project exploring the act of narrating sexual trauma. The workshop will provide Twine as a tool for making visible these invisible stories by resisting the erasure produced by gaming culture and other heteronormative narrative practices. REQUIREMENT: if possible, bring your laptop.

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HOODFAR, Homa (Emerita Professor of Anthropology, Concordia University) Feminism as crime: My time in prison In 2016, when I was visiting Iran, I was arrested and imprisoned on the charge of “dabbling in feminism and state security matters.” Given that feminism is not a legal crime under the Iranian legal system or the Iranian constitution, I was left to wonder whether my arrest, though unpleasant for me, was a positive sign for the movement in the sense that now the Iranian state takes women’s quest for justice and gender equality as a serious threat to its gender ideology, stability and security, or whether this was a sign of yet worse repression to come. I wondered what would be the ethics of writing on feminist strategies and activism given that it might inadvertently draw the attention of a repressive state and bring about more danger or restrictions on feminist social actors. Given that boundaries between feminist scholarship and feminist activism is hazy and that feminist scholars have always integrated their public role as researchers and intellectuals, I pondered what should be our role as feminist social scientists researching and working with feminists in the contexts of repressive states. One the one hand, if we do not write the history of women in the public sphere and society, it gets obliterated as it often has been. On the other hand, if we write, we may disadvantage the very people we intend to support. I am therefore asking and pondering what should be our guiding principles. JEAN-FRANÇOIS, Karine-Myrgianie (Community organizer and worker) When you’re hyper-visible and invisible at once: The Qouleur experience A group of artists, community organizers and activists came together to tell our stories and bring awareness of Black, Indigenous and people of color who are queer and trans to ourselves and the wider public. Being both hyper-visible and invisible in both queer and BIPOC communities, we decided to come together to bridge the gaps between our communities and create an open space for voices that all too often go unheard. KROBATH, Helena (Master’s Student in Media Studies, Concordia University) Field recording: Tools, ethics, and political dimensions Why consider sound practices? This workshop approaches field recording from several perspectives. We will learn practical recording techniques, while grappling with conceptions of field recording and its applications. The group will learn techniques for capturing and working with soundscape and documentary recordings, including an introduction to popular tools and hands-on exercises. As we work with these devices, we will also consider questions such as: How do recording devices construct and bound recording practices and accessibility to platforms? How do different social and technological mediations change listening experiences? What ethics are involved in recording events and communities; in editing; and in sharing? How do privacy, precarity, geography, cultural production, and commerce intersect with field recording practices and conventions? NOTE: No recording experience necessary. Equipment provided, but please bring a USB stick if you’d like to keep your recordings. KUNZLE, Caroline (Independent Artist and Researcher, Co-Producer of Easy Sonic Living on CKUT Radio) Audible bodies As the rising popularity of both the practice of stand up comedy and the academic field of humour studies reveals, joke-telling can be truth-telling and comedy, a powerful site for publicly verbalizing perspectives that are too often marginalized. Voicing one’s perspective about the fraught subject matter of social hierarchies and inequalities is delicate work. To take the mic and tell one’s (in)visible/silent truth in a funny way, can be a transformative act. Jokes aside, it is sometimes hard enough just to speak one’s truth in a school group discussion. Can engaging with the publicly spoken truths of stand up comics help us voice our own perspectives in important conversations? In this workshop, participants will read, listen to and watch jokes told by a variety of comics expressing feminist perspectives. Everyone will be invited to read out some of the jokes as well as add to the group discussion about the jokes, about the in/visible bodies telling them and about the participants’ experiences of re-performing the jokes. With the consent and collaboration of participants, the workshop discussion will be recorded, in order to be re-aired on the radio on May 30, as the Audible Bodies episode of Easy Sonic Living. LACOMBE, Michelle (Independent artist, Director of the international biennial VIVA! Art Action) Underlining for emphasis Within my feminist art practice, I use Western body modification techniques to complicate the reading of my form; a white able-bodied cis-gendered female. By making visible the hidden histories, references or realities that inform my everyday experience, I aim to exercise and amplify my own corporeal agency. Part drawing and part performance, Italics: Underlining for Emphasis consists of a straight horizontal line tattooed on the inside of my bottom lip. Executed for the first time in 2010 and re-activated in 2015, this mark is an attempt to apply, symbolically and literally, the textual device of underlining to my speech. This artwork is therefore an embodied refusal of the systemic devaluing of women’s voices and, more specifically, my voice as a woman. During this talk, I will give an overview of this project’s history, logic, and intentions.

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MANNING, Kimberley (Simone de Beauvoir Institute; Department of Political Science, Concordia University) The feminist university In 2016 a few of us at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute began to explore what a feminist university might look like. Our response is the Critical Feminist Activism in Research (C-FAR) Project: a community-building, research and training initiative emerging from an intersectional feminist framework anchored in anti-racist and anti-oppressive approaches to equity, inclusion and representation on campus and across communities. In speaking and working with each other across our difference, we hope to begin to reimagine how our university works and who it works for in order to foster a non-binary learning space that is intentionally inclusive and accessible, anti-racist and anti-colonial, one that is getting closer to that better-world we are hoping for and working towards. In this presentation, I will discuss the origins of the project, the method (social action research), and some of our specific projects underway. MCGOWAN-ROSS, Tara (“Urban aboriginal multidisciplinary artist) Girth Girth is a poetic narrative about eating disorders, fat bodies, and direct action, explored using the vehicle of the Printemps 2015 student strike. NEUMARK, Devora (MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts, Goddard College, Vermont and Washington) A joyous self

Your “Cultivating Joy as Radical Practice” project is beautiful and wonderful and very important. […] The kids really need help to get out of the difficult situation and look to the future in a different way far from all political and economic pressures.

Nizar Alayasa, Dheisheh Refugee Camp (in conversation with me November 2016)

Triggered by the despondency felt after the 2014 Umbrella movement (pro-democracy protests) in Hong Kong, the experimental art space Things that can happen (Sham Shui Po, Kowloon) commissioned me to create an art wellness laboratory. While in residence during the month of December 2016, I cultivated a joy practice that included daily Yoga Nidra meditations, research-creation experimentations and dialogue circles aimed at exploring just how much effective socio-political engagement stems from a joyous ground of being. Inhabiting a joyous self is an act of resilience, and “creating a movement that has its basis in joy is a truly decolonial practice” (Odile Joannette, from the Innu community of Pessamit, Director of Partnerships and Communication for the Assembly of First Nations (AFNQL) Human Resources Development Commission in conversation with me, November 2016). I invite participants in this workshop to take up this practice with me: together we will create the conditions within which to inhabit joy as a ground of being, a form of mobilization, and a way to alter perceptions. REQUIREMENT: dress with comfortable, loose-fitting clothing and, if possible, bring a yoga mat. PARENT, Laurence (Ph.D. Student in Humanities, Concordia University) Ableism is a feminist issue In Canada, disabled women are poorer than disabled men, are more likely to be victims of violence than women without disabilities, and face more obstacles in their everyday life. These are manifestations of ableism. As alarming as these facts may be, ableism is rarely on the agenda of feminist movements, and disability issues continue to be seen as separate from feminist issues. Over the years, numerous disabled feminists have worked hard to demonstrate how different systems of oppression, such as sexism and ableism, intersect, and also to make disabled bodies visible. They have claimed that failing to recognize ableism as a system of oppression and a critical issue for feminist movements hurts both disabled and non-disabled women and that, therefore, ableism needs to be addressed. In this presentation, I will introduce the concept of ableism by exploring some of the issues experienced by disabled women in Montréal. In addition to talking about my own lived experience as a disabled woman, I will also delve into the stories of disabled women I have met for my doctoral research project. QASHU, Leila (Banting Posdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University) Protecting and asserting rights and justice through an Arsi Oromo women’s dispute resolution process in Ethiopia I will discuss how women engage indigenous mechanisms of justice to hold individuals in their communities accountable in a male-dominated society. Specifically, through participants’ experiences and voices, I will describe ateetee, a sung Arsi Oromo women’s indigenous dispute resolution process in Ethiopia, to demonstrate how music, as an expressive form, enables women to protect, promote and claim their rights, and to resolve disputes peacefully in a rapidly changing social environment. Though Arsi society is socio-politically male dominated, women have their own power through ateetee, their women’s institution, and the vernacular belief system. Ateetee is a highly political and power laden justice process, in which women travel to the offender’s house singing insults, then sing in front of the offender’s house until a reconciliation ceremony is held. At the ceremony they receive a cow as compensation, then the women finish by blessing the offender. By examining this process from a local perspective, through voices of different participants and the overarching cultural context, I analyze the factors and circumstances that allow these sung rituals to remain relevant and effective means of dispute resolution, and to draw wider conclusions concerning how to foster restorative justice through the expressive arts. Finally, I will also discuss how Arsi women navigate multiple coexisting

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gender relationships and their rights, and how they negotiate multiple justice systems in local and broader contexts. This talk draws on years of fieldwork in Arsi communities, interviews, and audio and video recordings RAIL, Geneviève (Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University) A nomadic feminist voyage for collective mobilizing This presentation is a call to Summer Institute participants to embark on an intellectual and activist voyage that stems from feminist theory and anti-racist politics. Borrowing Rosi Braidotti’s concept of liminality, I argue for a post-disciplinary liminal space from which to celebrate feminist and antiracist accomplishments and focus on knowledge production and dissemination as well as activist efforts. I advocate for Deleuzian types of 'nomadic' encounters between art, scholarship and activism around issues related to the body, embodiment, affect and desire. ROSE, Lucas Charlie Trans trenderz: Redefining visibility The moment when black trans woman Laverne Cox made the cover of Times magazine has often been described at the ‘Trans Tipping Point.’ For the first time ever, trans bodies were visible in the mainstream media. But that visibility was quickly followed by a rising number of attacks against trans people. Through the streaming of songs written, produced and performed by trans people of color, the participants of this workshop will be invited to reflect on the effects of visibility when it comes to marginalized bodies and define the ways in which that visibility can be beneficial or harmful. SAWCHUK, Kim (Communication Studies, Concordia University) Ageing, relationality, intersectionality This presentation explores the so-called “relational turn” in the cultural study of ageing. It considers the contributions, both actual and virtual, by feminist and queer epistemologies to this re-thinking of age and ageing and what can be learned from the long history of intersectional thinking. SMETANA, Zuzanna (Master’s in Theological Studies, Concordia University) Invisible illness and community care What happens when government assistance falls short? We will explore how community action can drastically improve the lives of people living with chronic, often invisible, illnesses, and how these communities are formed. STOCKBURGER, Kate (Theatre artist, Concordia University student in Theatre and Development) Theatre of the oppressed / Image theatre workshop on in/visibility Augusto Boal developed Theatre of the Oppressed in the 1970s in Brazil. Since then, the techniques and exercises of Theatre of the Oppressed have been used to make social conflicts visible, intervene in situations to affect social change, and build “rehearsals” of new realities. This theatre practice is participatory and engaged; it can be used as a tool for popular education, social dialogue, and mobilization. The workshop will consist of a guided “pilot/co-pilot” exercise adapted from Boal’s work. It will incorporate a practice of Image Theatre to curate an embodied experience of storytelling and transformation. Participants would create “images” and “sculptures” (frozen tableaus) with their bodies based on narratives on the theme of in/visibility. They will then be asked to transform the images through a series of “wishes” to achieve an alternative outcome than that of the original narrative. There will be space for discussion on ideas of power, affect, what is visible, what is coded through gesture, what is inscribed on bodies, transformation, and whatever is invoked by the images created. The workshop could function as a performative and interdisciplinary intervention into our experiences of invisibility and visibility as well as offer a chance to embody the content discussed at the Summer Institute. REQUIREMENT: dress with comfortable, loose-fitting clothing.

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2017 Mini-‐Biographies Simone de Beauvoir Summer Institute

BAKHT, Natasha Natasha Bakht is an associate professor of law at the University of Ottawa where she teaches family law, criminal law and multiculturalism issues in the law. She was called to the bar of Ontario in 2003 and served as a law clerk to Justice Louise Arbour at the Supreme Court of Canada. Her legal scholarship explores religious freedom and equality issues faced by Muslim and other marginalized women in Canada. Her research on the niqab analyzes the unwarranted popular panic concerning Muslim women who cover their faces, and explores systemic barriers to inclusion perpetuated by Canada’s legal and political system. One of her articles on the rights of niqab-wearing women was cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in the case of R v NS, 2012 SCC 72. Natasha’s legal activism includes involvement with the National Association of Women and the Law, the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Together with her friend and colleague Lynda Collins, she recently stretched the legal boundaries of family by becoming legal co-mothers of their son, though they are not in a conjugal relationship. She is the current English Language Editor of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law (CJWL) and an Indian contemporary dancer and choreographer. BARIL, Alexandre Alexandre Baril’s interdisciplinary training combines ten years in philosophy/ethics and a Ph.D. in Women’s Studies. After working as a visiting professor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University and as an assistant professor with a limited-term appointment in Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa, Dr. Baril received an Izaak Walton Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his work on trans* and crip politics in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University. He has published articles in journals such as Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy; Feminist Review; TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly; Atlantis; Annual Review of Critical Psychology; Medicine Anthropology Theory; Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies; and Disability & Society. His intersectional research places gender, feminist, queer, trans*, and disability/crip studies in dialogue with the sociology of the body, health, and social movements. BERTRAND, Nahka I am a recent graduate of the Journalism program at Concordia University. I sing with Odaya, an Indigenous women’s art collective who works with the drum as a resonator for carrying forth Indigenous world views, and use the stage as a platform for denouncing issues. I am also executive chef at the Three Sisters Catering Collective, a diabetes-friendly an Indigenous-inspired catering start-up. BOUCHARD, Gabrielle Gabrielle Bouchard is a trans advocate and public educator at the Centre for gender advocacy; a social justice organization affiliated with Concordia University. Co-recipient of the 2015 Quebec LGBT Council’s Hooris Award, she coordinated part of the community efforts to bring legislative changes in the province and is the spokesperson representing the Centre in its court case against the provincial government to bring full legal equality to trans, gender divers and intersex people in Quebec. She participated in the creation of a name of common usage policy, and is now working on a genders, sexualities and learning diversity audit at Concordia. Gabrielle provides training and workshops to social actors, front-line workers, and post-secondary institutions in Quebec. She is an active member of “the trans agenda.”

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CHEW, Dolores Dolores Chew, Ph.D., teaches History and Humanities at Marianopolis College. She is a Research Associate of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute and a founding member of the South Asian Women’s Community Centre (SAWCC) and of the 8th March Committee of Women of Diverse Origins (WDO). She is also a member of CERAS (Centre sur l’Asie du sud), a forum in support of secularism and democratic development in South Asia and is on the Board of the Fédération des femmes du Québec. Her research and writing examine intersections of gender, race, colonialism and nationalism. DÉCARY-CHEN, Liane Liane Décary-Chen is a multimedia artist and activist working out of TAG lab at Concordia University in Montreal. She currently studies computer science and computation arts at Concordia University and is involved in a number of Concordia-based research efforts, investigating concepts in female leadership, queer subcultures, and feminist cybersecurity. Her work investigates marginalized identities and communities through the lens of interactive media. She currently runs Tech Witches, a group that aims to repurpose digital tools for the empowerment of marginalized people. EL-MASRI, Zahia Born as a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon, Zahia El-Masri’s work and activism is mainly around areas of social justice, intercultural communications and peace building through recognition. She has mediated and participated in numerous interfaith, and intercultural round table discussions and conferences on the question of Palestine. She was the coordinator of the Palestine committee during the 2016 world social forum and is a member of numerous Coalitions for justice and peace in Palestine. Zahia has worked on a wide variety of peace development and promotion projects. She holds an M.A. in public policy and public administration, as well as a graduate diploma in theological religious and ethical studies. Currently she is working at Regroupement des organismes du Montréal Ethnique pour le logement (ROMEL), an NGO specializing in social housing for all cultural communities and immigrants, focusing on their integration process through empowerment. FORTIN, Sylvie Sylvie holds a doctoral degree from Ohio State University and is tenured professor at the Dance Department of the University of Quebec in Montreal. Using both dance and the Feldenkrais Method, she has worked consistently with professional dancers as well as children and adults with diverse issues such as fibromyalgia, depression, eating disorders, neuromuscular and degenerative diseases, as well as stroke patients and people with addiction problems. As a recipient of numerous scholarships and research grants (CRSH, MELS) she works with a number of research teams including the CHUM, Notre Dame, and St Luc hospitals. Her action research background has lead her also into more recent partnership with National Centre for Dance Therapy and the Service aux collectivités de l’UQAM. Sylvie is also the author of over 100 scientific publications, has published the book Danse et Santé: du corps intime au corps social, and has co-edited revues focusing on social inequalities of health and transcultural aspects of different body practices. Sylvie’s international recognition as a researcher and practitioner has led to invitations as a keynote speaker and conference and workshop presenter in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australasia and Europe. In 2009, Sylvie received the University of Auckland Distinguished Visitor Award. FRIGON, Sylvie Sylvie Frigon holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is professor of the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa where she teaches since 1993. She was Joint Chair of the Women's Studies at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University from 2014-2016 and was Visiting Fellow at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, UK in 2014 where she currently is Senior Research Associate. She is Faculty Research Chair “The prison in culture, the culture in prison” (2016-2019). She has published several scientific articles, chapters and books. In 2006, she has also published a novel entitled Écorchées on the issue of women in prison. This first fiction is being adapted to the theatre. Her book on dance, the body and imprisonment with Claire Jenny, choreographer and director of the Parisian dance company “Point Virgule” was published in 2009. Her children’s novel Ariane et son secret, on a little girl’s quest for her mother who is in prison is published in 2010. Professor Frigon has been awarded the Faculty of Social Sciences’ Teaching Excellence Award (2010-2011). In 2011, Ariane et son secret was finalist for the literary prize Le Droit and the Trillium Book Award. Her edited book Corps suspect, corps déviant (Les éditions du Remue-ménage) was published in 2012. Professor Frigon collaborated with the AAOF (Association des auteures et auteurs de l’Ontario français) as artistic director of a writing project in prison. A book from these writing workshops has been published in 2014. In the Fall of 2012, in the graduate course CRM 6780, Claire Jenny, choreographer from Paris and co-author (Frigon and Jenny, 2009) offered dance workshops at the Old Ottawa Prison (See on YouTube). She published with Jennifer Kilty The enigma of a violent woman: A Critical Examination of the Case of Karla Homolka in 2015 (London: Routledge). She also published her 3rd novel in 2016 funded by the Ontario Arts Council, C’est où chez nous ? which was finalist for the Prix Espiègle 2017. She also works in partnership with the Grands Ballets canadiens of Montréal’s Centre for dance-therapy.

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Goldson, Jess Jess Goldson recently completed her B.A. in Psychology. She studied theatre performance for four years and has started writing for pleasure and for purpose. GUBERMAN, Nancy Nancy Guberman was diagnosed with breast cancer twenty years ago and reached out to Breast Cancer Action Quebec (at the time, Breast Cancer Action Montreal) to try and understand how she had developed the disease and how best to deal with the medical establishment during her treatment. Today she is president of the organization and an activist around environmental health and justice. She is also a retired professor from the School of Social Work, UQAM. HARA, Gina Gina Hara is a Canadian-Hungarian filmmaker and artist. She holds an MA in intermedia, an MFA in film production and had worked in different media with regard to film, video, new media, gaming and design. Waning (2011), her first fiction film, was nominated for Best Canadian Short at the Toronto International Film Festival. Hara’s latest project, Geek Girls (2017) is a feature documentary exploring nerd culture from women’s perspective and will be in theatres late 2017. Hara’s other works have been featured by different institutions including the New Museum in New York, Budapest Kunsthalle and the Toronto International Film Festival. Hara lives in Montreal, where she is the creative director of the Technoculture, Art and Games Research Centre. HEY, Maya Maya is an interdisciplinary researcher, foodmaker, and artist, combining her backgrounds in gastronomy, nutrition, and movement to investigate ways that engage the everyday eater. She completed her master’s degree in Food Culture and Communication at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy, and is currently pursuing her doctorate in the Communication Studies at Concordia University. HOLOWKA, Eileen Eileen Mary Holowka is a writer, editor, and grad student living in Montreal. She also makes games and music. Her most recent project is an interactive narrative video game about the act of narrating sexual trauma within institutional spaces. HOODFAR, Homa Homa Hoodfar, Ph.D., is Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, at Concordia University, Montreal. Her primary research and expertise lies in legal and political anthropology. She examines the intersection of political economy; gender and citizenship rights; women’s formal and informal politics, gender and public sphere in Muslim contexts. Professor Hoodfar has also been actively involved in Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) Network’s Research and Publication division since 1980s. Her publications include: Women’s Sport as Politics in Muslim Contexts (WLUML, 2015); Sexuality in Muslim Contexts: Restrictions and Resistance (edited with Anissa Hellie—London: Zed Books, 2012); Electoral Politics: Making Quotas Work for Women (co-authored with Mona Tajali—London: WLUML, 2011); The Muslim Veil in North America: Issues and Debates (Edited with Sajida Alvi and Sheila McDonough—Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2003); Between Marriage and the Market (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997); Development, Change, and Gender in Cairo: A View from the Household (edited with Diane Singerman—Indiana University Press, 1996) and numerous articles based on her different research projects. JEAN-FRANÇOIS, Karine-Myrgianie With a background in law, Karine-Myrgianie has worked in the community sector in feminist and/or youth-oriented organizations for the past 10 years. Born in Tiohtià:ke, this Black queer woman is passionate about social justice for minoritized communities which drives her activism. She currently works as the Senior Project Manager at DisAbled Women’s Network of Canada. Being a feminist since her teenage years, she writes, performs and co-hosts a podcast. This eternal optimist believes in the power of communities and knows that we as folks who are always put at the margin have the power to change our world! KROBATH, Helena Helena Krobath is a master’s student in Media Studies at Concordia University. She practices field recording and electroacoustic composition, along with visual media and writing. Her research investigates the ways sensory experience and spatial occupation of rural public areas relate to place-based knowledge, settler identities, and political economies. Her other research interests include creative methodologies, local media and information structures, and Canadian mass-media policies.

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KUNZLE, Caroline Caroline Künzle is an independent artist and researcher, currently investigating the role of humour in cross-cultural and cross-gendered conversations and keeping an eye out for the Trickster spirit, in all of its manifestations. Current research-practice includes interviewing other feminist humourists, cracking deadpan jokes and managing a team of female clowns. Caroline co-produces Easy Sonic Living, a bi-monthly experimental radio program on CKUT Radio and often uses this community radio space as an experimental lab for her research. She holds an MFA in Creative Practice from Transart Institute (New York/Berlin), an MA in Media Studies from Concordia University (Montreal) and a BA in Drama from the University of Alberta (Edmonton). For more information, see www.carolinekunzle.ca LACOMBE, Michelle Michelle Lacombe (Montreal, QC) lives and works in Montreal. Since obtaining her BFA from Concordia University in 2006, she has developed a practice that is singular within Québec’s cultural landscape. Her work has been shown in Canada, the USA, and Europe in the context of performance events, exhibitions, and colloquiums. She is the recipient of the 2015 Bourse Plein Sud. Her artistic practice is paralleled by a commitment to supporting action art and other undisciplined practices. She currently works as the director of VIVA! Art Action, an international biennial. MANNING, Kimberley Kimberley Manning studies social movements, gender politics, and social policy reform. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in rural Chinese villages and county archives, Dr. Manning has published articles on the origins of gender conflict in China’s Great Leap Forward (1958-1960), and co-edited a volume, Eating Bitterness, on the grassroots politics at work in China’s Great Leap Forward and Famine (1959-1961). “Authoritarian Attachments: Party Families and the Gendered Origins of Chinese State Power,” a book manuscript in the final stages of completion, shows how elite and grassroots party family networks contributed to the early successes and catastrophic losses of the first decade of the People’s Republic of China. Dr. Manning is also a participant on two SSHRC-funded team projects: a study of Sino-Tanzanian relations and a social action research study of gender nonconforming children in Canada. Dr. Manning received her doctorate from the University of Washington (2003), spent 2003-2004 as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University, and has previously held grants from SSHRC and FQRSC. MCGOWAN-ROSS, Tara Tara McGowan-Ross is an urban aboriginal multidisciplinary artist. Her work has been featured in Matrix, Alien She Zine, and Bad Nudes. She is mostly made of earth. NEUMARK, Devora Devora Neumark, Ph.D. is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher, educator, community-engaged practitioner and frequent lecturer. Neumark has been teaching in the Goddard College MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program since July 2003. She also serves as the Development and Funding Adviser to the First Nations Human Resources Development Commission of Quebec. Her SSHRC-funded research-creation Ph.D. titled Radical Beauty for Troubled Times: Involuntary Displacement and the (Un)Making of Home (Concordia University, 2013) was an inquiry into the relationship between the traumas associated with forced dislocation and the deliberate beautification of home. More recently, Neumark has been putting her attention to developing a body of work focused on wellness and the cultivation of joy as radical practice. PARENT, Laurence Laurence Parent is a Ph.D. candidate in Humanities at Concordia University. She holds an MA in Critical Disability Studies from York University and a BA in Political Science from Université du Québec à Montréal. She lives in Montréal and is passionate about disability activism, disability history and mobility. Laurence has been active in various disability organizations in the past decade. Laurence engages with the use of mobile media technologies enabling the creation of new methods for the critical study of ableism. Her academic and art work has featured in numerous conferences and exhibitions in Canada, the United States and England. She has also given guest lectures in many universities. Recently, she was selected by the Canadian Disability Studies Association (CDSA-ACEI) as the recipient of the 2016 Francophone Tanis Doe Award for Canadian Disability Study and Culture. QASHU, Leila Leila Qashu is currently a 2016-2018 Banting postdoctoral fellow at Concordia's Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS), a member of the Feminist Media Studio, and an affiliate of the Curating and Public Scholarship Lab (CaPSL). She has been working with the Arsi Oromo in Ethiopia and conducting fieldwork since 2002, independently and in conjunction with a French research team and a UNESCO project (2005-2009). Her research is at the theoretical and practical intersections between the expressive arts, women’s rights, vernacular feminism, multiple justice systems, indigenous legal systems, and vernacular belief. With a commitment to community-driven research, she looks for ways to apply participatory, practice-based methodologies. Her aim is to work in both academia and the public sector, applying the findings of her interdisciplinary ethnomusicology research to promote women’s rights, human rights and restorative justice.

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RAIL, Geneviève Geneviève Rail received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where Cultural Studies specialist Norman Denzin supervised her. She has taught courses related to women’s bodies, physical activity and health at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Health Sciences from 1991 to 2009. She is now Professor of Feminist Cultural Studies of Health at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute of Concordia University. She is known for her research on lived experiences of body-related institutions (e.g., health industries and systems, media) and favors feminist poststructuralist, post/de/colonial and queer approaches. Author of over 100 articles or book chapters, she has been a keynote speaker in over 50 national or international conferences. In the last 20 years, she has received funding from Canadian and Australian research councils (ARC, SSHRC, CIHR) for a series of research projects involving individuals from various cultural and socioeconomic milieus and with diverse expressions of gender, sexuality, and ability. She is interested in the intersection and articulation of gender/sexuality expression with the discursive constructions and embodied experiences of the body and health. Her current CIHR-funded projects focus on fatness, on HPV vaccination, and on breast and gynaecological cancer care for LBTQ persons. ROSE, Lucas Charlie TBD SAWCHUK, Kim Dr. Kim Sawchuk is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies, holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Mobile Media Studies, and is the Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies for the Faculty of Arts and Science at Concordia University. Kim is a feminist media studies scholar with a commitment to critical thinking and research creation. She has a background in theory and philosophy as a graduate of the Social and Political Thought (SPT) program at York University. Her long career of research and writing have addressed the embodied experiences of technology and their discourses; mobile media; the politics of geo-location and the transition to wireless infrastructures; and how biomedical representations of the body invite fictive senses of travel into “inner space.” Dr. Sawchuk’s research interests reflect her commitment to interdisciplinary thinking and her attention to rigorous and creative methodologies. Since the mid-1990s, much of Kim Sawchuk’s intellectual attention has focused on the intersection between age, ageing, and communication technologies. Her research on ageing in networked societies is intersectional and challenges lingering ageist assumptions within media studies, where old age and new media are often positioned as incommensurable topics. This research is dedicated to fostering opportunities for intergenerational media-making and is foundational to a re-theorization of how we understand key concepts in the field of communications, such as mediation and mediatization. Dr. Sawchuk’s research asks what it means to age in a society where the pressure to become digital is being made into an imperative for participation in public life. She has conducted major ethnographic investigations on “seniors and cell phones” with Dr. Barbara Crow of York University. These studies have demonstrated the need for researchers to understand the connections between ageing, personal household economies, political economic forces and the policies that influence cell phone use; they also question how we understand “non-use”. Kim’s most recent work on ageing and media is centred on community-based media practices with older adults and is asking questions about the ways in which Web 3.0 is shaping public knowledge of age and ageing. Kim is also a co-founder of the Critical Disability Studies Working Group (CDSWG) at Concordia, which is part of the cluster Communities and Differential Mobilities, within the newly reforming Hexagram. Her research in this area explores the use of research-creation and media-making with the Montreal disability rights community. SMETANA, Zuzanna Zuzanna Smetana is currently a student at Concordia University, beginning a Master’s in Theological Studies in the Fall. Her work focuses on the coping mechanisms of people who have experienced trauma, and/or “invisible” illnesses, as well as community responses and support in these cases. STOCKBURGER, Kate Kate Stockburger is a non-binary theatre artist, writer, and Undergraduate student at Concordia University. She is finishing up her Specialization in Theatre and Development and Minor in Women’s Studies. Their studies in Theatre and Development have comprised of socially-engaged activist performance, community arts, political theatre, feminist theatre, pedagogical and therapeutic theatre practices, and more. As a theatre artist, their interests and explorations have included gender and performance, embodiment, liminal states, internal organs, invisible disability and mental illness. They also work as a Stage Manager.

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